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There was a time when Pittsburgh was an economic powerhouse, home to steel mills and major corporations such as Westinghouse and Gulf Oil, neither of which exists in their original forms. Then the city fell into decline, a classic rust-belt story.
But Pittsburgh has been on the upswing for years. It's been rated in the top 10 places to live. Health care and education are major economic drivers, powered by two highly regarded universities, the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. Major corporations still call Pittsburgh home, including Heinz (HNZ) and PPG Industries (PPG).
I have been thinking of Pittsburgh recently because I made a trip there last week and was impressed by the city's vitality. I also enjoyed the film Jack Reacher, with Tom Cruise, which was filmed in Steel City.
Two Pittsburgh-area companies earn high marks from my guru strategies, which are based on the writings of some of Wall Street's most successful investors and mirror how they invest.
One pick is rue21 (RUE), headquartered in the Pittsburgh suburb of Warrendale, Penn. It operates 853 stores in 46 states and sells clothing targeted to youngsters. The strategy I created from the writings of James P. O'Shaughnessy indicates that now is a good time for investors to start sporting the rue21 brand. The strategy focuses on the company's $724 million market cap, increased earnings per share in each of the past five years, and a price-to-sales ratio of 0.85, well below the 1.5 threshold (the ratio measures how well-priced a stock is based on sales). The final step takes all the companies that pass these three hurdles and identifies the top 50 based on relative strength. Rue21's relative strength of 73 puts it into this cohort and earns it a strong showing based on the O'Shaughnessy strategy.
Kennametal (KMT) is a global supplier of tooling, engineering components and other materials used in production processes. It sells into such markets as aerospace, energy, transportation and machine tools from its suburban Pittsburgh headquarters in Latrobe, Penn. This company is a favorite of my Peter Lynch-based strategy, which emphasizes the price-earnings-growth ratio. Based on the PE ratio relative to growth, this measures how much an investor is paying for growth. A maximum PEG of 1.0 is allowed, and Kennametal's yield-adjusted PEG is a solid 0.81. Also in the company's favor is its reasonable amount of debt and the good job it is doing managing inventories.
You don't have to be a Steelers or Pirates fan to like these Pittsburgh players. Both companies offer solid investment opportunities.


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lesson learned / nikki / 45+ mins video
nothing gets tolerated
less than sexual harrassment in the workplace. so when nikki called
billy into her office to ask her about some serious allegations, it
was nothing to be taken lightly. billy had nothing to say. nikki
wanted a demo of what went down. so her huge big titties were played
with. nothing like a play by play to paint the picture. this led to
her shaved pussy being eaten and her playing with billy and his big
cock. intense blowjob fun followed by dick stiffening fucking. i
would love to be an employee at this office. nikki rode the dick and
let her bubble butt ass bounce all up and down. amazing. good stuff
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From where did Cain get his wife?
Indirectly, even for a beginner it's clear that outside the Garden of Eden some people lived. One may find more things about this in the story of Abel and Cain. This is nonsense since Adam is supposed to be the first man ever. How is that possible?


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Some of us — myself included — are still observing Detoxuary, the annual period following the holidays during which you abstain from booze & rich food , but those of you not spending the whole month of January on the wagon — myself included again here — should mark your calendars for the first Mixology Monday of 2010.
This round of MxMo — the 45th, if you're keeping count — takes place Monday, January 25, and is hosted by Frederic & company at Cocktail Virgin Slut. For this round, Fred has chosen Tea as the theme; here's what he has in mind:
Tea has played a historical role in cocktails for centuries. Perhaps the best documented early example was its inclusion in punches as part of the spice role to round out the spirit, sugar, water, and citrus line up. Later, teas appear in many recipes such as Boston Grog, English Cobbler, and a variety of Hot Toddies. And present day mixologists are utilizing tea flavors with great success including Audrey Saunder's Earl Grey MarTEAni and LUPEC Boston's Flapper Jane. Now it's our turn to honor this glorious cocktail ingredient!
Here's how to play:
• Find or concoct a drink recipe that uses tea or tisane (a herbal "tea" which lacks tea leaves) as an ingredient. This can be hot tea, cold tea, tea syrups, or infusions and use it in a cocktail, punch, or other drink type. Be careful how long you infuse them (after 2 hours, things get really bitter!) if you go that route, and feel free to take a shortcut and use Beefeater 24 which has tea already in the botanical mix.
• Make the drink and then post the recipe, a photo, and your thoughts about the drink on your blog or on the eGullet Spirits and Cocktails forum.
• Include in your post the MxMo logo and a link back to both the Mixology Monday and CocktailVirgin sites. And once the round-up is posted, a link to that summary post would be appreciated.
• Post a link to your submission in the comment section here, or send an email to yarm-at-verizon.net
The due date is Monday, January 25th which I will interpret as whatever gets posted before I awake on Tuesday the 26th.
And that pretty much sums it up. So unlock the liquor cabinet and break out the stash of oolong — this round sounds like it'll be especially fun. See you on January 25!


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From the Oak: Let's hear it for the God!
Many are those that focus on female divinities, leaving male divinities in the shadows if they get mentioned at all. This is a shame. Here I will share my thoughts, stories and prayers on male divinities. Currently focusing on divinities placed in an atheist "graveyard".
Sigyn's Heart
The next deity (#6) from the "god graveyard" is Loki. Loki interests me unlike a very large part of the Norse Pantheon, even more so than Odin and Thor. Maybe it is his association with fire (fire sign here [grin]) or the devotion of Sigyn. More likely it is the fact that he doesn't fit in anywhere (as I often feel that way). Yet it could e my tendency to cheer on the underdog or maybe his similarities to Hermes. Any way he incites a cautious curiosity in me.
Loki is another divinity that is a large source of contention within his cultural community. As a god who is known for ignoring barriers, I'd guess he finds this rather amusing. As an outsider looking in, what could I write about that could truly have any meaning? Yet I am pushed to try because of my fascination and my promise.
I think the biggest issues with Loki are his tendency to upset the "apple cart". Humans tend to like things smooth, steady and predictable. Religions, especially, tend to be conservative. Loki, as trickster and a force of chaos, constantly works against that. He makes one look at faults, where continuity has become inertia, where change is needed wanted or not, easy or not. No one likes to have his nose rubbed in offal yet that is precisely what Loki does. He gender bends, he straddles barriers, he pokes fun, he thieves, he burns trails which are never the same again, although the gifts left behind are generally worth it, once clean up is complete.
But the crux of his worthiness, for me, lies with Sigyn. If he was so unworthy, she could have walked away instead of alleviate his torture. He was bound to rocks with their son's intestines while their other son roamed the world as a wolf. That would be enough to make any mother go mad but instead she captures the snake's poison in a bowl and empties it as quick as possible before returning to her post. She could have walked away at any time. No one would have blamed her, not even Loki, I think. But she stayed. She stayed. Why? If he was not worthy of the honor, sooner or later, abused or not, she would have walked away…to feed herself if nothing else. Yet, she stayed.
I hail you Son of Laufey.
I hail you Bloodbrother of Odin.
I hail you Flamehair.
I hail you Mischievous One.
I hail you Rule Breaker
I hail you Bringer of Light.
I hail you Breaker of Stasis.
I hail you God of Laughter.
I hail you Shapeshifter.
I hail you Straddler of Fences.
I hail you Protector of Misfits.
I hail you Silvertongue.
I hail you Smith of Untruths.
I hail you Speaker of Truths
I hail you Challenger of Assumptions.
I hail you Master of Satire.
I hail you Speaker of Inconvenient Truths
I hail you Mercurial One.
I hail you Sigyn's Heart.
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Gaelic Theatre, Sydney Australia
10 December 2006
Review by suncross and Brat, photos by Brat
When people talk about the Gaelic Theatre they talk about the pillar that can obscure your view. What I didn't expect was the pillock that obscured my view. This peasant spent the entire gig with his digital camera raised in mock salute (Phew! Wasn't me this time—Brat) save only for the occasional headbang and an arpeggio run on his air guitar. It was a painful paparazzi performance but I would not let it distract me from my night of metal.
Finally, I was to bear witness to LORD and GAMMA RAY on the same bill. It could not have been more metal if Dorothy's Tin Man had donned a mail shirt and stormed the stage singing Hail and Kill.
This was my first chance to experience the reincarnation of Dungeon. LORD delivered a blistering performance. Their power metal has a bite and while comparisons have been made to HammerFall, LORD is more reminiscent of American bands like Jag Panzer. Real rousing choruses, crunching guitars, swinging battleaxes and decapitating dragons type metal. (Not to mention the occasional pirate—Brat)
LORD opened with the epic Legend of Huma from Resurrection. Naturally the set focused on Dungeon material but the chemistry between the band members brought new energy to the songs. Mav Stevens (in one of his last gigs with LORD) and Lord Tim traded solos while Andy on bass and Tim on drums anchored the band to the intrusive backline. Terrano Del Mar was huge and had the audience chanting like pirates singing "Whoa ho, all rowing this metal manowar onward".
Despite a stage no larger than a Porsche parcel shelf, Lord Tim and the band made it look like they were playing Long Beach Arena. "Scream for me, Sydney!"
Technical glitches then enforced a longer break than intended. I settled in to watch the intermission entertainment where two drunken yobs beside me started a fist fight. No dramas, they were obviously good mates.
Brat: It's during these types of delays when you appreciate the brilliance of the promoters. Virgin Melbourne-based promoters-the guys from the Screaming Symphony radio program – showcased the last VANISHING POINT slab Embrace The Silence in its entirety, which by most accounts bypassed most Sydney metalheads after its 2005 release.
Somebody remembered to plug in the lights and GAMMA RAY took to the stage. I recalled hours spent gazing at the gatefold sleeve of HELLOWEEN's Keeper of the Seven Keys in 1987, so Kai's arrival from Germany was akin to Odin flying down from Valhalla. Allfather the creator of modern power metal was in Sydney.
GAMMA RAY opened with an almighty version of Gardens of the Sinner from PowerPlant. The grin on Kai's face was infectious.
Brat: Never content to stay in the same spot all night unless in front-row position for one of my favourite bands, I spent the early part of the night moving around trying to get a few different angles for photos. There was a moment of extra excitement for me when from the back of the room I thought Ronny Milosevic (Sinergy, Dionysus) was behind the drums instead of Daniel Zimmermann—maybe it's time I got my contact lenses upgraded. I eventually managed to squeeze through bodies which seemed to be superglued together in an attempt to get closer to GAMMA RAY than was physically possible, found a good spot in front of Henjo Richter and decided to stay there the rest of the night.
GAMMA RAY delivered a suitably diverse set list for their first visit to Antipodean shores, selecting a song from most of their albums.
Brat: New World Order was the next song from the same album although I would have preferred to hear Heaven Or Hell, but I wasn't complaining as "GAMMA RAY" and "quality" are synonymous.
There was much adoration beaming up to the band from the audience—men were salivating, women were baring flesh, all with fists raised in the air while Man On A Mission and Fight pulsed through front-of-house.
Speaking of VANISHING POINT, I shouldn't have been surprised to see VP's keyboardist, Leonard Kopilas, on stage playing for GAMMA RAY. After all, when the bands toured together in Europe, VP's keyboardist Danny "Danimal" Olding, was also pilfered.
Blood Religion from Majestic smoked. "It's about vampires," deadpanned Kai.
Brat: I'm here, I thought as I gave a mental wave.
The Helloween medley following Heavy Metal Universe was a nice touch but to abridge Rebellion in Dreamland (with Land Of The Free after they played The Silence—Brat) was a disappointment. I could no sooner contemplate cutting Hallowed Be Thy Name than editing this jewel in Gamma Ray's crown.
Brat: What Helloween medley would be complete without I Want Out—an anthem covered by so many bands for so many reasons. I have a new-found admiration for all that is and was Helloween after seeing them live in an intimate arena, so this medley was extremely welcome.
The evening finished with two encores. The crowd just wouldn't let Gamma Ray go home.
Brat: The first of the encores started with Valley Of The Kings.
The highlight of Gamma Ray's performance was a rousing rendition of Somewhere Out In Space. The building chorus was perfect for the live setting.
The professionalism and dynamism of both bands was a privilege to watch. It was truly a "Majestic" night of metal that transcended both pillar and pillock.
Brat: GAMMA RAY is the type of band where you don't need to know the songs to really enjoy there performance. I mean, I have a couple of albums, but I'm not so familiar with the material as to be able to sing along with the songs. Hell, the only song I think I could sing to was I Want Out and that had more to do with me being a Sonata Arctica fan!
This isn't the first time I'd seen GAMMA RAY live and even on a huge stage and fighting for a view amongst 20,000 people, they managed to keep me interested, but after the last song in Sydney, Send Me A Sign, I really didn't want it to be the end of the set.
The band had all intentions of doing a meet and greet signing session after the show, but curses to the stupid venue which had to close early due to Sunday night licensing restrictions. A few diehard fans waited at the back entrance for some time after the venue closed and were awarded with plenty of autographs and photos—even holding phallic symbols—true sportsmanship, Aussie style!


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March 15, 2014
Book Review - Big Sky River by Linda Lael Miller
Pleasant escapist western romance as Tara establishes herself as a sort of chicken farmer in Parable, Montana, after a failed first marriage that seems to have left her with plenty of money and no need to earn a living. She doesn't at first take to her neighbour, the widowed Sheriff Boone Taylor but the inevitable happens. A new baby, orphaned dogs, adorable children, teen misadventures and new love in a small town community that knows your business and that means they help in a crisis. This is part of a series of Big Sky romances by this assured writer under the Harlequin imprint. Wendy
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Yesterday, we offered our view of the most important play from Thursday's game.
But for me, the clear play of the game was the Packers' failure to stop the Cowboys on 3rd and 19 deep in Cowboys territory. At the time, the score was 27-24, and if the Packers had been able to hold them on that play, we would have gotten the ball back with good field position and a chance to have our second-string quarterback lead the team on its third touchdown drive. That would have not only changed the score, but would have likely been very demoralizing to a Cowboy team that looked out of sorts at the beginning of the second half.
I still think that the 3rd and 19 play was the final turning point, but Tom Silverstein offers several plays of the game here.


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The Dr. Jack Diamond Award
In memory of Jack Diamond, M.D. Ph.D.
The Dr. Jack Diamond Award has been created to honour the memory and contributions of Dr. Jack Diamond within his former role as Scientific Director of the Alzheimer Society Research Program and to commemorate his love for good scientific writing. The purpose of this special award is to recognize excellence in Alzheimer's disease (AD) research carried out by trainees within the field. The award will be offered annually to meritorious authors of published, scientific articles in AD. Each year the Society will publicize the winners through existing channels, such as social media, the Society's website and Reports on Research that are prepared for donors and the public.
The award will consist of $1,000 paid directly to the awardee. Award winners are encouraged to use the funds towards the presentation of their research at a scientific meeting. Awardees will also receive a special certificate. Up to two awards will be announced each year.
The following eligibility criteria will apply:
- Published articles are to be submitted by the authoring trainee.
- Articles would have had to have been accepted for publication during the time the applicant was enrolled as a doctoral student/postdoctoral fellow.
- Applicants must be doctoral students or post-doctoral fellows and must be the first author of the article.
- Articles must be based on research projects in which the trainee has been directly involved during his/her period of doctoral or post-doctoral training. The applicant's role must be clearly explained in the application form.
- Trainees are required to hold a training award from the Alzheimer Society Research Program, during time the work was done.
- The research article must have been published in a peer-reviewed journal within six months of the submission (open access publications are highly encouraged).
- Canadians and non-Canadians conducting research in Canada are eligible to apply.
- Canadian doctoral and postdoctoral fellows training in another country are eligible to apply.
- Only one submission from any applicant is permitted for any given article.
Application and Review Process
Submissions will be accepted once a year with an annual deadline of December 31st. Applications will be reviewed by the Alzheimer Society of Canada's Research Policy Committee. Applications are to be completed by trainees and submitted online. Review decisions will be made prior to March 31st of each year.
A prominent neuroscientist, Dr. Jack Diamond died at the Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington on August 19, 2014 in his 86th year. Jack was an honorary member of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience, Scientific Director Emeritus of the Alzheimer Society of Canada and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University. Jack was born in Manchester, (UK) and got his medical and science degrees from the University College London.
Jack built a lively department focusing on developmental neurobiology, at McMaster University and was an enthusiastic participant in the Centers of Excellence for Neurosciences in Canada.
His own research, which was imaginative and of the highest quality, was concerned with regeneration and disorders of peripheral nerve; later he also studied risk factors for the development of Alzheimer's disease. Jack wanted to understand beneficial and detrimental roles of collateral sprouting, "a poetry of nerve growth".
After reaching retirement age at McMaster, Jack served for several years as Associate Director for Scientific Affairs at the Montreal Neurological Institute and was a valuable contributor to the Society for Neuroscience, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International, the ALS Society of Canada and the Spinal Cord Society.
One of Jack's best qualities was the ability to give stimulating and amusing lectures; as a raconteur, Jack could hold an audience spellbound. His sonorous voice resonated beyond the walls of the lecture rooms. He was also a man of great enthusiasms; he loved nature, hiking, running, playing piano and reading detective stories.
"His boundless enthusiasm and excitement for discovery has motivated and encouraged a small army of investigators, and in more recent years I gained an added appreciation for his flair for making science understandable and relevant to the public. He was one-of-a-kind, will be sadly missed, but long-remembered." -Mark Bisby, Consultant, former Vice-President of Research for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
Jack Diamond will be missed by his family, friends, students and neuroscientists across Canada and worldwide.


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Trulia files for $75 million IPOAugust 17, 2012: 10:39 AM ET
Trulia Inc., the company behind real estate website Trulia.com, filed for an initial public offering that is expected to raise as much as $75 million, though the company did not specify how many shares it plans to sell or how they will be priced.
Earlier in the summer, Trulia filed for a so-called confidential IPO thanks to the Jumpstart Our Business Startups, or JOBS Act, which was signed into law in April.
The law allows "emerging growth companies" with less than $1 billion of annual revenue to file their documents to go public with the Securities and Exchange Commission for confidential review and keep them out of the public eye until 21 days before they plan to begin making their pitch to potential investors in what is known as a road show.
Related: The rise of confidential IPOs
Trulia, which is based in San Francisco and provides information on homes for sale, neighborhoods and housing trends, raked in almost $29 million in sales for the six months of 2012, up 78% from the same period a year earlier. (CNNMoney has a content partnership with Trulia.)
The company plans to list on the NYSE under the symbol TRLA and has hired J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank, RBC Capital Markets, Needham & Co. and William Blair as underwriters for the deal.
Last year, fellow real estate website Zillow (Z) raised $69.2 million in its initial public offering, with shares priced at $20 a piece. The company's shares are now trading almost 80% above their IPO price.


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So, where were we? Dragoncon. Costumes. Geekery.
I pretty much had a plan for what costumes I was making for DC this year before last year's con ended. And, as usual, that plan went right out the window. Blah blah blah procrastinationcakes. That wasn't the only reason, but let's run with it instead of getting bogged down with all the other boring crizzap.
You might have noticed that I'm kind of a big fan of Urban Threads. When the site unveiled its amazing Mechanica Aquatica designs a couple of months ago, I just knew I had to incorporate them into a DC costume. And thus the "Steampunk Mermaid" was born.
OK, she's really not a mermaid but I wanted something that was very mermaid-y in feel. My character (if you will) is married to a man who runs aquatic adventures. Unfortunately, he's been lost at sea since heading off on an expedition to find the lost city of Atlantis but I continue to dress as something of a walking advertisement for his business.
Yes, another crummy phone pic. Some day I will get decent photos of this costume. Preferably a day when it's not 92 freaking degrees outside with 80 percent humidity. Until then, we'll all just have to deal.
There's about six or seven hours of embroidery in this costume. Some of that was spent on designs that didn't turn out so well. I'm still counting them. In addition to what you can see here, there also are two of the fish borders on the back of the skirt and an "embossed" compass rose on the purse. I'm also wearing a free-standing lace choker. Yep, all of it's from UT.
The corset is a pattern by Truly Victorian and I love it beyond all reason. The printed fabric is an Asian quilting fabric by Quilt Gate. They're actually fans but I flipped them upside down to look more like scales. Cool, eh? The shiny fabric is from a piece in my stash that I bought at Fabric World. I'm 100 percent certain it's 100 percent synthetic but it was perfect for this costume. Because I omitted the busk in the corset, I used something like 8 or 10 yards of lacing in the back. It's still a bit of a struggle to pull on and off but I really like the centered design on the front.
The skirt is a modified version of Butterick 4954. I added some fin-like details on the sides, a peplum in back and — my favorite touch — metallic copper pintucks on the lower portion of the skirt to mimic fish tails. Without all the embroideries and extras, I probably could have made the skirt in an hour or two. As is? Yeah, a lot longer.
To top it all off, I made a leather pirate hat fascinator. It's my first time working with leather and I'm so lucky to have a friend who makes leather armor (among other things). Totally tapped into that wealth of knowledge, let me tell ya. (Thanks again, Stephen!)
I put together a Flea Market Purse from The New Handmade to go with, made with purple no-whale corduroy and lined with the same shiny fabric from the corset. Normally, I'd add pockets to the skirt but the design didn't really lend itself to on-seam pockets so a purse it was.


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Recommending Reading: Post-Digital Print
Image via Post-Digital Print: The Mutation of Publishing since 1864 from Everyday Science and Mechanics magazine, 1935
Artists have often been at the forefront of technological innovations in publishing media — experimenting to push boundaries in new directions. They create new ideas about interactions with emerging media and spark fresh conversations about legacy practices and formats — think; David Horvitz, Metahaven, and Paul Chan's Badlands Unlimited, to name only a few. This phenomenon of experimental publishing isn't new, but Alessandro Ludovico puts the enterprise into a unique and digestible perspective in Post-Digital Print: The Mutation of Publishing since 1864. His research reveals the deep history and early seeds of current publishing media remix in their original surroundings — from Fluxus promotions to the rise and fall of zines and up to the interventionist work of Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev's Newstweek and beyond.
In our present digital era, the 'death of paper' has become a plausible concept, widely expected to materialise sooner or later. The 'digitisation of everything' explicitly threatens to supplant every single 'old' medium (anything carrying content in one way or another), while claiming to add new qualities, supposedly essential for the contemporary world: being mobile, searchable, editable, perhaps shareable. And indeed, all of the 'old' media have been radically transformed from their previous forms and modalities – as we have seen happen with records, radio and video. On the other hand, none of these media ever really disappeared; they 'merely' evolved and transformed, according to new technical and industrial requirements.
The printed page, the oldest medium of them all, seems to be the last scheduled to undergo this evolutionary process. This transformation has been endlessly postponed, for various reasons, by the industry as well as by the public at large. And so the question may very well be ...
Artist Profile: Julian Oliver
Transparency Grendade (pre-assembly), 2012 by Julian Oliver
You've been participating in the tech and art community for over a decade now. You're work spans everything from establishing an artistic game-development collective to pushing the boundaries of privacy on public wireless networks with custom hardware. Just this past year you published the Critical Engineering Manifesto with Gordan Savičić and Danja Vasiliev. Was there a specific event or moment that inspired its creation and were their any earlier iterations of the ten statements that didn't make the final cut?
Danja, Gordan and I felt a long standing need to frame our respective practices a little more acutely, foregrounding the languages and cultures of Engineering, rather than Art, in the creative and critical process. We'd each found ourselves frustrated under the vague, ballooning term of Media Artist - like trying to swim in a bathrobe. This came up in conversation enough times to explore alternatives. Afterall, it didn't seem to matter whether we called what we made 'art', even ourselves 'artists', people were quick to do it for us anyway.
One thing that regularly came up in conversation between us is that Engineering, not Art, is the most transformative language of our time - informing the way we communicate, move, trade and even think. The reach of Engineering is so deep that it's hard to disagree it has become part of our environment, with vast impacts on human culture, the Earth and how we understand it. So it follows that to ignore the languages, logics and ideas that make up this thing we call Engineering is to assume a critically vulnerable position - we become unable to describe our environment.
As thinkers with technical abilities in several areas, we want to take on our built and increasingly automated environment by the terms in which it's given, opening it up for post-utilitarian conversation, for play and interrogation. If there's ever a time to be doing that, it's now, especially with opaque and hidden infrastructure in the telecommunications space deeply impacting diplomatic relations and civil liberties world wide.
The Critical Engineering Manifesto grew directly from conversations along these lines and was generally very well received, soon translated into 14 languages. A couple of people wrote in that they wondered why we didn't include or reference 'hacking' as a critical practice to draw upon. Admittedly none of us had an instinct to include it, as it is also a term that has an increasingly vague meaning. I think Danja and Gordan would agree that those that hack in a way we appreciate are already Critical Engineers!
The Transparency Grenade and Newstweek are projects that are designed to disrupt traditional systems of information distribution in news organizations, companies, and governments. Do they achieve your desired affects on the systems they are designed to criticize? Have you been satisfied with the results of the two projects?
It's true that both projects are real implementations with tangible and disruptive effects. That said Danja and I developed Newstweek primarily to spur critical attention to the vulnerabilities of our increasingly 'browser-defined reality', to return an eye to the network infrastructure that plays an integral role in the distribution of fact. If you can control the infrastructure, you can control what's understood to be fact. Newstweek has certainly achieved what we'd hoped in this regard, inciting plenty of productive, healthy paranoia - helped along by us releasing a full HOWTO so that others can build their own Newstweek devices.
The second dimension to the project surrounds an intervention on the top->down news distribution model. We know that our news is being 'tweeked' anyway - an endemic symptom of the (rather bizarre) fact we traditionally depend on privately owned news corporations to inform our summarial view of the world. Newstweek seeks to intervene on this model, an on the ground solution for civilians to have their chance to propagandise or simply 'fix the facts' they know to be untrue.
The Transparency Grenade has been a tricky project as all of sudden some people think I'm in the cyber-weapons business, which I'm not. Like Newstweek, it's first and foremost a conversation starter. It seeks to directly manifest the fears we have, whether state, corporation or individual, around the increased political volatility of data. Indeed it is an implementation that can be used but I'm not selling grenades to be used as weapons. In fact they're limited edition finely crafted objects that look enough like a grenade for you to /not/ want to take with you into a corporate meeting. The Android application I'm still developing will mimic much of the functionality of the grenade and is better suited for such purposes, though I certainly will never suggest it be used and nor will I use it myself. That would put me in a very different legal position.
Many of your works challenge the implicit trust people have in the wireless networks they use - from cell phones to public wifi. In that same way your pieces often blur the boundaries between gallery space and the public sphere. Why is revealing and breaking these boundaries of trust and perception important to you and your work?
Again it comes back to infrastructure and how our inability to describe and understand reduces our critical reach, leaving us both disempowered and, quite often, vulnerable.
Opacity is an important word here too, as is the term 'black box'. Most of our engineered communications infrastructure is not just extraordinarily abstract for people to come to grips with but is actively kept hidden. There are some valid reasons, of course, for keeping infrastructure hidden but the fact is it out of sight is being increasingly exploited in and out of supposedly democratic contexts, largely by surveillance initiatives we were never told about.
Interface Aesthetics: An Introduction
Image from CMD SHIFT 3 .NET by Emilio Gomeriz
Everyday we use digital tools to create, edit, and document our work. We click fastidiously into the graphical user interface (GUI) of applications, seeing expected results while trying to ignore the friction of bad design, failed UX, and glitches. Most actions are conducted successfully and the interface holds its transparent position. But despite the GUI's seemingly innocuous presence, its aesthetic leaches its way into our own. How we view our creative process and documentation is minutely and incrementally shifted by the frame of the interfaces we routinely use.
Douglas Engelbart's 1968 demo of NLS (online system)
The current paradigm of the user interface had its first introduction on December 9th in 1968 when Douglas Engelbart demoed his famous NLS (online system) at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, CA. Engelbart and his team at Stanford had an innovative vision driven by desires to improve the ways people communicate and interact with each other and computers. It was the public debut of the mouse. The work produced by his group went on to inspire the most basic interactions used in Xerox's Star graphical user interface and almost every operating system since...
Thoughts on Wikipedia's Future
A page from David Horvitz's A Wikipedia Reader,2009
"Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work."
- Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic
Earlier this month Wikipedia held its annual summit in Washington, DC. Afterwards, The Atlantic summarized the event in an article outlining how Wikipedia is slowly running out of admins to edit the site's content. A trend is emerging. Fewer people are applying, and the current editors are slowly leaving. The long-term future has a flicker of uncertainty. To spark some discussion, I surveyed four artists and writers about the decline. We can all speculate what effects a decline in editor participation will have on Wikipedia as a global knowledge-base, but what are the implications for artists who use it as a tool for research and making work?
Lori Emerson
A healthy creative practice in the 21st century demands a baseline level of unencumbered access not just to information but to a broad range of cultural practices in general. While some of the most successful artists of the digital age are, as Mark Amerika has put it, 'remixologists' of information and culture, such a practice isn't sustainable without grassroots archives to draw from such as Wikipedia. For my own work, Wikipedia has long been a crucial entryway to information on the history of computing and digital art - Wikipedia pages on these topics are remarkably detailed and informative in ways often unmatched by books or print-based articles. I fear that the potential decline of Wikipedia would not only severely impact creative-critical practices but it also indicates more broadly that while we have made tremendous strides in opening access to information, we do not yet have any strategies in place for a long-term curatorial practice of maintaining and preserving this access ...
Guest Blogger for the Week: Jason Huff
Photo by Laura Swanson
Jason, our former editorial fellow, is back to guest blog while Joanne is on vacation this week. He is a practicing artist, writer, and designer who originally hails from Georgia but now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Last year he graduated with a Masters in Fine Art in Digital + Media from the Rhode Island School of Design. His work is currently featured in Daphne, a show at FJORD gallery in Philadelphia, PA that opened this month. Keep an eye out for American Pyscho, a collaborative piece he completed with Mimi Cabell scheduled to be published later this year by Traumawien. His work is also included in the Special Collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art.


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DVB-T stands for Digital Video Broadcasting via Terrestrial radio.
This is Digital Video Broadcasting for broadcasting of Digital TV via terrestrial Antenna (indoor / roof).
DVB-T transmissions have already started in some countries (UK, Australia, Germany, Finland, Italy). France would start Free To Air DVB-T broadcast in March 2005 (in MPEG2) and Pay Per View broadcast in Septembre 2005 (in MPEG4).
Depending on the Transmission Mode about 15MBit can get transmitted per Transponder (Frequency). This is enough for one HDTV channel or 4-5 Standard Definition TV channels. Multiple channels can be organized in Bouquets (a bunch of services by a particular Service Provider).
- DVB-T PCI Cards
- DVB-T USB-Boxes
- DVB-T IEEE1394 / Firewire / iLink Boxes
- DVB-T PC-Cards
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Dan Wahlin (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for ASP.NET and XML Web Services) is the founder of The Wahlin Group (www.TheWahlinGroup.com) which provides .NET, SharePoint, and Silverlight consulting and training services. Dan blogs at http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin.
One of the great features Silverlight offers is the ability to customize controls by using control templates. If you don't like how a particular control looks you can modify the template and in many cases be ready to use the new control without writing a single line of C# or VB code. I'm working on a client application that uses the
AutoCompleteBox found in the Silverlight Toolkit and needed a way to change it from a regular
TextBox to more of an editable
ComboBox. Fortunately the Silverlight Toolkit samples (for Silverlight 2 and 3) already do something like this as you can see in Figure 1. (Once on the page click on
AutoCompleteBox to the left and then on the Styling tab at the top of the page to see the sample).
The sample modifies the standard
AutoCompleteBox to look more like an editable
ComboBox by defining a custom control template with a
ToggleButton in it (Tim Heuer provides a nice walk through of this type of customization here if you're interested). Listing One is a simplified version of the Silverlight Toolkit's sample template that I'm using:
<ControlTemplate TargetType="input:AutoCompleteBox"> <Grid Margin="{TemplateBinding Padding}"> <TextBox IsTabStop="True" x:Name="Text" Style="{TemplateBinding TextBoxStyle}" Margin="0" /> <ToggleButton x:Name="ToggleButton" HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Center" Style="{StaticResource ComboToggleButton}" Margin="0" HorizontalContentAlignment="Center" Background="{TemplateBinding Background}" BorderThickness="0" Height="16" Width="16" Click="DropDownToggle_Click"> <ToggleButton.Content> <Path x:Name="BtnArrow" Height="4" Width="8" Stretch="Uniform" Data="F1 M 301.14,-189.041L 311.57,-189.041L 306.355,-182.942L 301.14,-189.041 Z " Margin="0,0,6,0" HorizontalAlignment="Right"> <Path.Fill> <SolidColorBrush x:Name="BtnArrowColor" Color="#FF333333"/> </Path.Fill> </Path> </ToggleButton.Content> </ToggleButton> <Popup x:Name="Popup"> <Border x:Name="PopupBorder" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Opacity="1.0" BorderThickness="0"> <Border.RenderTransform> <TranslateTransform X="2" Y="2" /> </Border.RenderTransform> <Border.Background> <SolidColorBrush Color="#11000000" /> </Border.Background> <ListBox x:Name="Selector" ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" ItemTemplate="{TemplateBinding ItemTemplate}" /> </Border> </Popup> </Grid> </ControlTemplate>
Looking at the template you'll see that it defines a
ToggleButton with a
Click event and associated event handler named
DropDownToggle_Click. Listing Two is what the
Click event handler looks like:
private void DropDownToggle_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { FrameworkElement fe = sender as FrameworkElement; AutoCompleteBox acb = null; while (fe != null && acb == null) { fe = VisualTreeHelper.GetParent(fe) as FrameworkElement; acb = fe as AutoCompleteBox; } if (acb != null) { if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(acb.SearchText)) { acb.Text = String.Empty; } acb.IsDropDownOpen = !acb.IsDropDownOpen; } }
You can see that the code uses the
VisualTreeHelper class to access the parent of the
ToggleButton which is the
AutoCompleteBox. Once the
AutoCompleteBox parent is found the code handles showing or hiding the
Popup control that's part of the control template by setting the
IsDropDownOpen property to True or False.


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Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, May 24, 2012, 3:25 PM
Town Square
'They had the wrong guy'
Original post made on May 24, 2012
Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, May 24, 2012, 3:25 PM
Comments (10)
a resident of North Whisman
on May 24, 2012 at 5:45 pm
Does this mean that the police believe there is still a violent bike thief on the loose near downtown Mountain View? Have there been any more thefts or attacks in that area?
a resident of Shoreline West
on May 25, 2012 at 1:55 pm
I thought the victim of the theft had identified him.
a resident of another community
on May 25, 2012 at 3:19 pm
I read your article and I can't help but be upset. This "Liz" is really starting to irritate me. She is trying to cover her you know what since she released FALSE INFORMATION to you originally about Craig holding a black bag in the CVS video. I would appreciate it if you would PLEASE STATE THIS in your article. They are still trying to make it sound as if he could have done this. CRAIG JORDAN WAS STILL ON LIGHTRAIL AT 11:10am! Did they mention this to you? Your article is trying to raise more questions and controversy rather than get the truth out there and clear Craig's name. It sounds to me that the MVPD is a bit upset with themselves that they focused all their energy and attention on the WRONG GUY and let the real attacker get away. Now the poor victim and his bike are probably still in danger. I was in court for the prelim and I heard all of the WITNESSES being questioned, and it's my understanding that NONE of the witnesses said Craig was the attacker. In fact, the witness who was the closest to the incident was FOR SURE that CRAIG WAS NOT THE ATTACKER. Only the victim "identified him" (from many feet away) after being bashed in the head. So why doesnt this police spokesperson mention any of the witnesses descriptions of the attacker? Why is it that all they keep mentioning is how the VICTIM identified Craig?? Obviously the victims memory wasnt that hot after being bashed in the head a few times. They need to state ALL THE FACTS and quit with their "There was an abundance of evidence to indicate Jordan was responsible for the robbery," crap. The fact of the matter is, it was NOT Craig. Period! So get over yourselves and let's TALK THE TRUTH! Justice was not served for the victim in this case - and now THERE IS STILL A VIOLENT ATTACKER AND BIKE THIEF OUT THERE!
a resident of Shoreline West
on May 26, 2012 at 12:49 am
All of those caps, and meth involved. The victim identified him. How interesting is this. Let's all see the CVS video.
a resident of another community
on May 26, 2012 at 1:57 pm
HAHAHAA!! Whatever. Obviously "Old Ben" has no clue what he's talking about. The "victim" couldn't remember crap when he was on the stand... "It was too long ago to remember" were his EXACT words many times. The whole case was bogus. The guy wanted to blame somebody for his bike ALMOST being stolen so he "identified" the first person the police found. If you werent there to hear the FACTS then you really shouldn't have an opinion. Craig is legally blind without glasses... the attacker - not wearing glasses. They had no case because they had the WRONG GUY. And that's that. And the reason for the caps is to get the POINT ACROSS TO YOU IGNORANT READERS THAT LOOOOVE TO PASS JUDGEMENT BECAUSE A PERSON HAD A "SMALL AMOUNT" OF METH ON THEM. NICE TO KNOW YOU LED A COMPLETELY PERFECT AND FAULT FREE LIFE. HAAAAAA!! GROW UP AND GET YOUR MIND RIGHT.
a resident of Blossom Valley
on May 26, 2012 at 5:41 pm
They need to start Inquisition sessions again, that always gets the truth out of them.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on May 26, 2012 at 7:50 pm
I believe it! I also believe they should get O.J. Simpson to track down the REAL bike theif
a resident of Old Mountain View
on May 26, 2012 at 9:37 pm
I can feel the race wars coming on...
a resident of another community
on May 29, 2012 at 10:02 am
I have followed this case closely as a concerned patron of Mtn. View. It seems that the MVPD did not do a good job capturing the guy that tried to steal the bike and "bashed" the victim. There were 2 witnesses brought into court and both said that it was NOT the person being charged. They both said that person was small and lean, didn't wear glasses and was carrying a black bag. Craig is 6', not lean, wears glasses and was carrying a white CVS bag when he was apprehended. The victim was the only one that said Craig was the person that did it however he couldn't remember anything else about what happened. Craig having a small amount of drugs on him didn't help his situation and made it easier for the police to take him in on this charge but now they have left the real thief out there to steal and attack again. The news paper needs to get this story right and stop bashing Craig or others in this type of situation. If incorrect information is printed it not only leads the public to thinking they are safe when no one has been caught and the person (in this case Craig) slandered. I really hope the police are working on finding the guy who did this so no one else is hurt and I hope this paper and others will think about what they write a little more in the future. If it was you that was in this situation how would you feel?
a resident of Monta Loma
on Sep 25, 2012 at 8:38 am
Sure...the police did not do a good job. And, of course, Liz is the worst.
The police in Mtn View are doing a great job. They are not perfect. If they did NOT arrest someone they felt did the crime...you guys would scream and shout.
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I love fall… and school supplies!
My favorite part of fall was "back to school" shopping. New clothes, shoes, haircut, and school supplies! When I was in elementary school in the early 80's, we had to cover our text books. It was a creative process using brown paper bags that mom saved after grocery shopping. We weren't really recycling, but you didn't thrown those things away. You might need them for something!
After we covered our books, we could decorate them to our little hearts' content! That was waaaaay before craft supplies were popular. All we had were crayons and a limited color selection of Sharpie markers 🙄.
I'm channeling my inner "grade school Wendy" and came up with a fun "back to school" book project for the Crafter's Castle Back to School video hop, featuring Taylormadecards4u.
Click HERE to watch the video on YouTube. Be sure to read the detailed instructions in the description box below each video. There you will find the full list of hoppers and guidelines to enter for a chance to win a Taylormadecards4u Passport to School digital kit.
The hop lasts through Saturday Sept 7, 2019, giving you plenty of time to watch, subscribe and comment on all 7 designers' videos for your chance to win!
I was inspired by Teresa Morgan's cascading mini album, but I made a few adjustments to fit my project. I added some die cut windows in each pocket to house ATCoins that I will make to fit inside!
I am fascinated by interactive cards and books, and this one is no exception! With a gentle tug to the left, the accordion spine mechanism cascades out to reveal all the inside "pages".
Slide the pages to the right, and they neatly fold back into a book!
The top pocket allows for easily removing the ATCoins for closer viewing!
The Passport to School digital kit has numerous backgrounds and images for decorating. The sweet image on the cover is my favorite!
If you are inspired and want to create one of these little albums for yourself, click HERE to download a free copy of the PDF file I created with detailed cutting and assembly instructions. I have also designed an SVG cut file of this project as a bonus prize. Leave a comment below for your chance to win!
Visit Monica Taylor's blog to check out more inspiration from the Taylormadecards4u design team using the Passport to School kit and add-ons. Stay tuned for more "back to school" projects from the Taylormadecards4u design team on September 15!
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Our designers will work with you to create a space that matches your lifestyle, helping to make your home uniquely beautiful.
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ONETIME- Hole in the wall: How a rental property was ruined
One time, there was this very sweet guy who we took on as a renter. He worked at a car wash, but he turned out be a nutcase, and he and his pregnant wife just stopped paying the rent. Then they broke up and everything was left in this house.
We went into the huge downstairs area, and he had had a meth lab and it had blown up! We didn't even know about the explosion until a week or two after it happened. There was a hole in the wall.
The neighbors said that they had heard a blast, but they never told us or called the police. The police said that it was a meth lab because the only thing they had down there were aquariums, which they say are used to heat meth in.
The police came out afterwards and said there was nothing they could do. Though I could have described and identify those renters, they wouldn't arrest them or search for them.
Later, we found another guy who was owed money by this same renter. I tracked the woman down to the Food Lion where she was working, but as soon as I started garnishing her wages, they said she'd left. We contacted the guy's father, and he did nothing. We were so dumb.
One of the things that you need to do as a landlords is band together and share lists of people that are deadbeats, and don't rent to them.
Find renters with good credit. Don't buy property in a town that unfairly favors the tenant over the landlord. The biggest thing is knowing that your tenant is going to pay. Now we've had some really good experiences with tenants. Most of our tenants are fab.
Go and look at your potential tenant's car. We should have realized that, because this woman's car was a mess, she was a mess.
You cannot predict what your tenants are going to be like from their references. People just lie through their teeth to get rid of bad tenants.
Generally, the higher income the property you're renting, the better your chances of getting tenants who pay regularly. But we had one guy who was on welfare who was fine. Who knew?
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Boy, you know what they say about driving? That it's a two way street. I could tell you some landlord stories that would curl your nicely dyed hair. It works both ways lady, and more often it's the landlord who is the cheat and the scumbag.
Case in point...not matter where I've rented, I have always, repeat always had to nag and threaten to get back the security deposit or even a portion of it. Seems like all the landlords think that they're entitled to it. Or, what's more likely is, they don't have it because they didn't keep it in escrow. Word!
Did you have the house and land tested and professionally cleaned? OSHA assumes any old meth lab is a haz-mat site due to contamination and waste from the cooking process which uses highly toxic chemicals. Waste was most likely being poured onto surrounding soil.
Do you inform new tenants that they are renting an old meth lab? Do you give them a choice as to whether it was cleaned enough for them to risk their or their children and/or pets health?
There are many websites with info on people buying or moving into old meth labs and becoming ill.
Different states have different laws regarding disclosure, but I hope your conscience is your guide and disclose whether you are required to or not, same goes for when you sell the property.
Here is a website with some info, scroll down the page for data/statistics for some news stories from around the country.
Too many people are renting and buying homes that had old meth labs and having their lives ruined from becoming ill from the contamination and/or having to go through a lawsuit to rectify the situation either through recission or having a place professionally cleaned.


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Kurt Nimmo
May 12, 2010
The Republican version of the Tea Party, the Tea Party Express (a money-making machine for establishment Republicans), has drafted a guideline for selecting Supreme Court nominees.
The plan lays out "Five Constitutional principles," as follows: "Judges must interpret the Constitution of the United States as written," "Judges must not use their positions to replace the text of the law and Constitution of the United States with their own personal feelings or experiences," and "Judges must understand that the Federal government has no power if the Constitution does not explicitly provide it."
Sounds good. And yet the Tea Party Express has yet to make up its mind on Elena Kagan, according to CNN.
Amy Kremer of the Tea Party Express said activists are in a "fact-gathering mode," figuring out the process, timeline, and how Kagan compares to other Supreme Court nominees. The Tea Party Express has not yet expressed an opinion of Kagan. "We have not, collectively as a group, taken a hard-line," Kremer said.
Why not? It is no secret Elena Kagan is an enemy of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
In academic papers, Kagan has stated her opinion that certain free speech should disappear and she would celebrate censorship. "I take it as a given that we live in a society marred by racial and gender inequality, that certain forms of speech perpetuate and promote this inequality, and that the uncoerced disappearance of such speech would be cause for great elation," she wrote in her 1993 article "Regulation of Hate Speech and Pornography After R.A.V," for the University of Chicago Law Review.
Kagan believes the Supreme Court should focus on "motives" when it comes to restricting the First Amendment. Not that censorship is unconstitutional on its face, but rather that the government should go shopping for politically correct motives.
"Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan said the high court should be focused on ferreting out improper governmental motives when deciding First Amendment cases, arguing that the government's reasons for restricting free speech were what mattered most and not necessarily the effect of those restrictions on speech," reports CNSNews.
It does not take a lot of imagination to envision what Kagan would deem proper motives for government censorship. She is a socialist, Wall Street operative, and multicultural lesbian.
In an article written three years later, Kagan argued it may be proper to suppress speech because it is offensive to society or to the government.
In a brief, United States V. Stevens, uncovered by the Washington Examiner, Solicitor General Kagan wrote: "Whether a given category of speech enjoys First Amendment protection depends upon a categorical balancing of the value of the speech against its societal costs."
"The Court rejected Kagan's reasoning, but had the justices accepted her assertion, it would have effectively repealed the First Amendment's protection of speech and replaced it by granting government the authority to decide what speech should be permitted," writes Mark Tapscott for the Washington Examiner.
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In short, this woman is an enemy of the Bill of Rights. Is there something about this fact the Tea Party Express does not understand?
Establishment Republicans will assist Obama in placing this enemy of the Constitution on the Supreme Court.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, has called Kagan "a brilliant woman." Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona said he doubts there is anything in Kagan's record that would result in a filibuster. Kagan is "nominally qualified, and by that I mean she is obviously very intelligent." Kyl told CNN.
Republicans will not attempt to block Kagan's nomination.
Even though Kagan's nomination is all but a foregone conclusion, the real Tea Party needs to vociferously denounce her as a threat to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. They need to underscore her Wall Street connections.
Obama plans to pack the court with traitors who endeavor to dismantle the Bill of Rights. Sonia Sotomayor is also a minion of the elite and a member of the female version of the Bohemian Grove, the Belizean Grove.
Like Kagan, she is a committed socialist. She quoted Norman Thomas in her 1976 Princeton yearbook.
Thomas was a six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. Socialism has received ample funding and support from Wall Street since the advent of the Communist Revolution in Russia. It is the preferred control mechanism of the global elite.
The Obama administration is rife with enemies of the Constitution. Another sworn enemy of liberty, Cass Sunstein, who heads the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, proposed infiltrating "conspiracy groups" in COINTELPRO fashion. He has suggested the government ban "conspiracy theorizing" and "impose some kind of tax, financial or otherwise, on those who disseminate such theories."
Remarkably, Sunstein appeared on a SCOTUS short list before Kagan was selected.
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Tue 24th Apr
7:15 pm
8:45 pm
Decatur Makers Board Meeting
Tue 15th May
8:00 am
10:00 am
Fwd: REMINDER: Community Arts, Culture, Diversity & Preservation Stakeholders' Meeting
Here is some more information about the meeting tomorrow. If you want to talk about anything before you go I'm around tonight. Thanks for doing this on behalf of Decatur Makers. Hope we can play a role in the development of this new and important space.
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From: Angela Threadgill
Date: May 14, 2018 4:50 PM
Subject: REMINDER: Community Arts, Culture, Diversity & Preservation Stakeholders' Meeting
To: Allison Bickers
Cc: [email protected],[email protected],[email protected],Erin Braden
Hello! The AGENDA for tomorrow is attached.
The City of Decatur is preparing a Master Plan for its recently purchased 77-acre Children's Home property. The City's consultant team, led by Cooper Carry design firm, will be holding a small-group stakeholder meeting for a focused discussion on arts, culture, community diversity, and historic preservation goals.
Be prepared to share your group's mission and goals, how those goals may relate to the UMCH property, how goals may overlap among groups, how such goals could be implemented at the UMCH property, and the capacity to build partnerships to implement those goals.
Representatives of the following community organizations and partners are invited to this discussion: City of Decatur's Historic Preservation Commission, Better Together Advisory Board, Decatur Arts Alliance, and Decatur Makers.
Here's the details:
Community Arts, Culture, Diversity & Preservation Stakeholders' Meeting
Tuesday, May 15, 8:00-10:00 AM
Dining Hall, Rear Entrance to UMCH Admin Building
500 S. Columbia Drive, Decatur GA
8:00 AM: Overview of Community Feedback thus far (coffee, fruit, and muffins provided)
8:30 AM: Site Tour (Bring appropriate shoes and attire for site tour)
9:00 AM: Discussion
Let me know if you have any questions or requests. Thank you!
Angela Threadgill
Planning Director
City of Decatur Planning & Zoning Division
Community & Economic Development
P.O. Box 220
509 N. McDonough St.
Decatur, GA 30031
404-371-8386 (office)
678-553-6575 (direct line)
[email protected]
Dining Hall, UMCH Admin Building, 500 S. Columbia Drive, Decatur GA
Tue 22nd May
7:15 pm
8:45 pm
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And the mass transferring of college quarterbacks continues.
According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, former Minnesota quarterback Max Shortell has decided to transfer to Jacksonville State of the FCS ranks. Shortell tweeted his intentions on Thursday.
Minnesota announced in December that Shortell would be departing the program, though Shortell's father told the Star-Tribune at the time his son felt he would not get a chance to play after losing his starting job in October to freshman Philip Nelson. Shortell had taken over for the injured MarQueis Gray in 2012, but inconsistent play led to Nelson burning his redshirt midway through the year.
In 13 games with the Gophers, Shortell threw for 1,172 yards with eight touchdowns. Since Shortell will be transferring down a level, he will be eligible to play right away.


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Fixed up the smart_runaround behavior to integrate it fully.
Merge branch 'master' of ssh://roboclub.org/home/svn/scoutos
Added a script to auto-generate BehaviorList files.
This includes some sub-changes:
* Restructured behaviors/ folder into behaviors/, test_behaviors/ and limbo_behaviors/
* Added a new CMakeLists.txt that automatically finds behaviors in their folders
* Removed the obsolete trafficNavigtaion.*...
Add smart runaround behaviors.
Test commit for new clone.
Conflicts: scout/libscout/src/BehaviorProcess.cpp
Overwrote the ROS sigint handler so now behaviours stop and die and stop motors upon exiting.
Updated line follow code to make turns for Lab 2.
Also upgraded at_destination and LineSensor::destination() for Intro Lab 2.
Added new at_destination functionality.
Maze turns are buggy and are the next order of business.
Changed scout constants to refresh faster. Also retuned linefollowing for faster refresh rate.
Fixed pause not working with the GUI. Also removed super annoying printf from MotorControl. And also fixed some pause/resume GUI bugs and the fact that process.kill and process.terminate wouldnt do anything.
Hacky fix to pause to work around issue that sending motor commands sometimes does nothing.
Changed it so that all behaviors are not instantiated immediately. Also changed pause so it does not spam (0, 0) motor speeds.
Changed linefollowing so that turns start working once again. Also fixed some bugs with maze solving.
Called spinOnce to update sonar readings.
Added the behavior to behavior list and cmakelists and made things compile.
Finished writing up the maze solving behavior.
a poor barebone of maze_solve that I wasn't able to finish
Sepearated refresh rate for scouts and for the simulator.
Fixed the line following code.
Now works with new unitsFixed a bug with reading the line location, correctly centering the line between -3.5 and 3.5 rather than -4 and 3.Also fixed a bug caused by overflow in absolute speeds sent to motor control, which fixed bouncing in line following.
Changes so that scout1 automatically spawns upon creation of thesimulator environment, and that line follow just continuously followslines instead of prior line-following-capability testing code.
Fixing bugs with ghost scout (these were problems in odometry relatedto constants in the simulator and coordinate frame and theta representationin the simulator). Also made ghost scout translucent in order to differentiateit.
Last commit did not contain changes to Odometry behavior. Gits dumb.
Fixed pause and resume. Kind of. There are lots of bugs with the GUI.
Fixed pause so that it compiles. Also changed behavior gui so that it starts with Scout1 automatically.
Conflicts: scout/libscout/CMakeLists.txt scout/libscout/src/BehaviorList.cpp scout/libscout/src/BehaviorList.h
Fixed Odometry behavior so that it now works and then added a get readings functionality to sonarcontrol.
Added Sensors class that abstracts away sensors from behaviors. Stops creatingduplicated sensors for each scout.
Added initial GUI for testing, renamed cw and ccw behaviors
Fixes to WirelessReceiver and wl_test
Changed receive callback to use std::function so we can use std::bind topass non-static member functions. There is still a weird problem whereWirelessReceiver::dummy gets called many times for each incoming packetin wl_test.
Demo almost working Scouts go home! a
better warehouse image (corresponds with lines now) and demo. Now only thing left is to implement home behavior.
Ok Scheduler warehouse behaviour working! and linefollowing works better now! Onto better demo.
Trying to make the warehouse robot drive around
Renaming to line follow and getting rid of old linefollowing files.
adding maps for warehouse and fixing strtok issue in wh_robot that massed up curr_task
some testing done on WH_robot exec_task, issue pinpointed to curr_task's dest being stored as 0, not fixed yet
made the linefollowing a bit more reliable
Sim line can make turns now! yay
WH_robot goes home in exec_task, follow_path function added; untested
Adding wl_test files that were not added before
Small changes to wireless, and starting turning with line following.
some fixes to whrobot and scheduler
Line following code made bettergit status
fixed scheduler array access, no more segfaulting, but hangs
Fully working linefollowing. Instructions:
roscorerosrun scoutsim scoutsim_node racerosrun libscout libscout scout1 6
Linesensor tested and done!
Basic line sensor readings!
ROS scheduler/whrobot behavior needs to be debugged
Changing scheduler and WH robot to ROS messages
Added sim_line behavior for line follow testing.
Fixed bugs and compiler warnings in old code.
Pushing modified behavior process that requires less arguments and appends scoutname to ros node name. and a compiling but not tested version of test_behaviors (scheduler and wh_robot)
Got scheduler to compile. onto wh robots
added get worst case time to wh_robot
added get_worst_case_time to nav maps
Merged WH_Robots with other files
updating Order with util functs
minor edit to prev push
WH_Robot preliminary code, untested
Fixed some bugs in navmap
Merged scheduler implementations and modified order structrure class
Scheduler interface.
An implementation of a portion of the scheduler code. Will probably be stripped for useful content and added to the real final version. Mostly just sets up the structure of the scheduler class and its interface with getting and putitng jobs into the lists.
Adding Doxygen documentation to navigationMap
Made nav map into an actual workable behaviorgit statusgit status
Behaviours now have names!
Committing some clean ups done in the linefollowing behaviours
Fixed some of the syntax problems with the navigationMap fsm and tested it, it seems to generally work. Note the fsm eta still does not work for various reasons.
navigationMap bfs tested and worksgit status!
Fixed more errors of indentation and spaces.
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Ok fixed compilation issues from last commit
Conflicts: scout/libscout/CMakeLists.txt
Temporary, possibly broken, commit to add EncodersControl.
Sorry - my ros build is broken. I will immediately debug on Priya's machine.
Hello, this is James, I updated the navigation map code to better support the getting of the current state and the getting of the estimated time until the robot arrives at its destination. Also there is a TODO that says that we need to find the actual speed of the robot.
Added get outbound edges to navigation map file
Finishing BFS for behaviors navigationMap. Also commiting teleop skeleton code.
BFS for NavigationMap prototype, lots of TODOs
Moved outboundVectTable to navigationMap and filled out the code for it.
lineFollow functions for Scout.
The lineDrive function from the colony 3 bots that has been modded to be compatable with c++ and also the motors commands were switched to handle the scouts library. Note: If it fails to compile, I probably did the motors wrong. Love James.
Initial ported traffic navigation code.
navigationMap prototype for Scout
New behavior implementation that uses a list of behaviors to command multiple scouts with multiple behaviors.


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> After being swept at the hands of the Mets, the Brewers got their series in Atlanta off to a good start, defeating the Braves 2-1. It was an old-fashioned pitchers' duel between Jimmy Nelson (4-3, 2.92 ERA) and Julio Teheran (1-4, 2.57 ERA), but despite stellar starts from each, neither factored into the decision. Scooter Gennett ended up being the hero for the Brewers with his go-ahead hit in the eighth inning.
Milwaukee drew first blood in the fourth inning on Ryan Braun's frozen rope to center field for his eighth homer of the year. However, the Braves tied it in the fifth on an RBI triple from Mallex Smith (who?). Atlanta's demise came when reliever Bud Norris walked Ramon Flores and Jonathan Villar in the eighth, setting the stage for Gennett's go-ahead RBI single. The Brewers received scoreless relief from Michael Blazek, Tyler Thornburg, and Jeremy Jeffress, who recorded his twelfth save of the year.
> Nelson didn't have his best stuff tonight, but, as aces do, he made it work and still posted a solid start (although he was facing the worst team in the National League). He threw six innings of one-run ball, walking three and striking out eight. Just as he did in his last start against the Cubs, he had to dance around danger all night, but managed to limit the damage. One worry I still have about Nelson is the middle innings, which have given him issues at time throughout his career; Smith's RBI triple happened to come in the fifth inning today. But, with his ERA now at 2.92 and him pitching leaps and bounds better than anyone else in the rotation, I'm in no place to complain at the moment.
Nelson's mound opponent, Teheran, was better tonight and certainly deserved to win. The Atlanta ace went seven innings while allowing just one run on three hits. He didn't walk a batter and struck out 12. This was no surprise, however, as Teheran came into today with a 2.04 ERA in five career starts against the Brewers.
> This series is already better than the Mets series was as a whole. After Wily Peralta blew an early lead in the first game, the Brewers went on to blow two more leads in the next two games. Despite the fact Milwaukee knocked around Jacob deGrom (5.0 IP, 5 H, 4 ER, 3 BB, 7 K) on Saturday, Zach Davies (5.1 IP, 5 H, 4 ER, 2 BB, 5 K) wasn't great either. David Wright eventually hit a walk-off single off of Blazek in the ninth to give the Mets a 5-4 win.
The series finale was ugly as well. After Jonathan Lucroy's early RBI single, Noah Syndergaard (7.0 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 11 K) went to work and carved up the Crew. Chase Anderson (5.0 IP, 4 H, 3 ER, 2 BB, 6 K) wasn't awful, but wasn't good either; his damage included a solo homer from Michael Conforto in the 3-1 loss.
> Will Smith is on his way back to the bullpen, as he began a rehab assignment with Class A Advanced Brevard County today. He threw a scoreless seventh inning against Clearwater, the Class A Advanced affiliate of the Phillies.
> Corey Knebel should also be back in the bullpen before long. He threw a bullpen at Turner Field today.
> The Brewers have reportedly been connected to Cuban outfielder Yadiel Hernandez.
> Milwaukee released right-handed reliever Jim Miller today. He had pitched to a 7.41 ERA in 17 innings for Triple-A Colorado Springs.
> I looked at Taylor Jungmann's Triple-A stats today for the first time in a while, and they aren't pretty. The Brewers' first-round pick from 2011 has a 12.76 ERA in five starts since being sent back to Colorado Springs for the first time since he was recalled in June of 2015.
Jungmann was sent down in late April after going 0-4 with a 9.15 ERA in his first five starts of 2016. However, even if he's actually pitching well, his numbers won't show it because Colorado (need I say more?). However, a 12.76 ERA is awful, even if he's pitching in a hitter-friendly park.
> Teheran pulled off the rare four-strikeout inning in the second today.
> The Brewers will look to take this three-gamer from the Braves tomorrow at 6:10 p.m. CT. Junior Guerra (3-0, 3.96 ERA) will look to stay hot in his first career start against Atlanta. The Braves will counter with Mike Foltynewicz (1-2, 4.57 ERA); the flame-throwing right-hander is 1-1 with a 2.16 ERA in his career against Milwaukee.


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Kasa Luntian Tagaytay will be Alveo's first foray into leisure developments and is planned to be a leisure residential condominium complex with a quaint retail strip tucked away from the main road.
The approximately 0.8-hectare retail district of the property is envisioned to be a unique destination with dining concepts such as organic bistros and coffee shops, as well as boutiques with special finds. The leisure condo neighborhood will be a low-rise and low-density community.
Tagaytay City, considered as the country's second summer capital because of its crisp and cool climate, is a treasure box of pleasure points in by itself and is Metro Manila's most frequented leisure playground and weekend vacation spot. Located just about an hour and a half away from the metropolis, Tagaytay City provides a quick getaway from the pressures of life back in the busy urban jungle. Whether time is spent admiring the breathtaking views of Taal Lake or feasting on the multiple offerings of diverse restaurants or even lazing away in the abundant spa destinations, Tagaytay spells leisure all year round.
Accessibly located along theTagaytay-Calamba National Road between 2 major thoroughfares: the Sta. Rosa-Tagaytay Road and the Emilio Aguinaldo Highway.
Unit Types are studio, 1-Bedroom, 2-Bedroom, 3-Bedroom and Penthouse units. The property will also be managed by a lease exchange division of Ayala Land, thus like a condotel, it can earn from short-term rentals from tourists who want to experience the Tagaytay lifestyle and see the breathtaking Taal Volcano or from weekenders wanting to escape the hustle and bustle of the city – truly an investment with returns.


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Navy shoots 51 percent from field, tops Lafayette
Mids improve to 6-7 on season
Brandon Venturini scored 28 points and drilled 8 of 9 3-pointers as Navy defeated Lafayette 79-71 Sunday.
Navy (6-7, 1-1 Patriot League) shot 51.1 percent from the field and was 11 of 14 from beyond the arc. Thurgood Wynn scored 15 points and Worth Smith added 14 with six rebounds.
The Midshipmen overcame a 33-29 halftime deficit and opened the second half on a 17-6 run, with Venturini hitting two 3-pointers and Smith adding two jumpers and a three-point play.
Lafayette (4-9, 0-2) crawled back and trailed by two after a Bryce Scott layup, but Navy used a quick 8-0 surge to increase their lead to 10 with 34 seconds left.
The Leopards shot 20 of 49 (40.8 percent). Scott led Lafayette with 20 points, while Alan Flannigan and Dan Trist each chipped in 14.


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Gladys I. Mucci - Smithfield
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Gladys I. (Rennick) Mucci, 96, of Harris Road died Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013, at the Philip Hulitar Hospice Center.
She was the wife of the late Ralph Mucci. Born in Pawtucket, she was a daughter of the late James and Jessie (Paton) Rennick.
Gladys was a bookkeeper for the former Pawtucket Manufacturing and had worked for the school lunch program in Lincoln. She was a member of the Royal Travelers.
She leaves four children, Dorothy Abraham of Connecticut, Ralph Mucci Jr. of Smithfield, Bethany Giguere of Smithfield and Beverly Pate and husband Gabriel of North Providence; and five grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. She was the sister of the late James Rennick.
Her funeral service will be held Tuesday at 11 A.M. in the Robbins Funeral Home, 2251 Mineral Spring Ave., North Providence. Burial will be in Highland Memorial Park, Johnston. Calling hours Monday 5-8 P.M. and Tuesday 10 to 11 A.M.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Foundation, 249 Roosevelt Ave., Suite 201, Pawtucket, RI 02860, or to Home and Hospice Care of RI, 1085 North Main St., Providence, RI 02904.


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Welcome to 2011. Whether you happen to be a member of roughly one-half the population or just a human being, you're sure to find something below to make you think.
Or possibly scream.
First up, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who apparently believes that the 14th Amendment — that's the one that talks about equal protection under the law — does not apply to women. That's what he told UC Hastings College of the Law professor Calvin Massey in an interview published in the latest issue of California Lawyer. Here you go:
In 1868, when the 39th Congress was debating and ultimately proposing the 14th Amendment, I don't think anybody would have thought that equal protection applied to sex discrimination, or certainly not to sexual orientation. So does that mean that we've gone off in error by applying the 14th Amendment to both?
Yes, yes. Sorry, to tell you that. … But, you know, if indeed the current society has come to different views, that's fine. You do not need the Constitution to reflect the wishes of the current society. Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn't. Nobody ever thought that that's what it meant. Nobody ever voted for that. If the current society wants to outlaw discrimination by sex, hey we have things called legislatures, and they enact things called laws. You don't need a constitution to keep things up-to-date. All you need is a legislature and a ballot box. You don't like the death penalty anymore, that's fine. You want a right to abortion? There's nothing in the Constitution about that. But that doesn't mean you cannot prohibit it. Persuade your fellow citizens it's a good idea and pass a law. That's what democracy is all about. It's not about nine superannuated judges who have been there too long, imposing these demands on society.
No comment.
Actually, the above is what we might expect from one of the right-most justices on the nation's highest court. But look what we find over there at the considerably more enlightened New Yorker, courtesy of a caustic note from Anne Hayes, who fired off this letter to the editors of the elite periodical:
I am writing to express my alarm that this is now the second issue of the NYer in a row where only two (tiny) pieces out of your 76 page magazine are written by women. The January 3rd, 2011 issue features only a Shouts & Murmurs (Patricia Marx) and a poem (Kimberly Johnson). Every other major piece—the fiction, the profile, and all the main nonfiction pieces—is written by a man. Every single critic is a male writer.
We were already alarmed when we flipped through the Dec 20th & 27th double-issue to find that only one piece (Nancy Franklin) and one poem (Alicia Ostriker) were written by women.
She ended her letter by saying that she was enclosing the current issue of the magazine with her letter — and expected a refund. Love it.
And then there's Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, who tearfully took the gavel Wednesday as the new Speaker of the House. Maybe you like him, maybe you don't, but what his aides have said — and what the "Pledge to America" spells out as job one — is the repeal of the health care overhaul, which, incidentally, has been estimated to save $140 billion over the next ten years. (Um, remember who pays the price when health insurance isn't a guarantee? More below.) The new Republican platform spells out its agenda thus: Cut the federal budget — without raising taxes or cutting military defense spending. You can probably guess where the cuts will come. This from the guy who cries at the plight of families.
Prepare to weep, because we also find out from ABC News that Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn), founder and chairwoman of the House Tea Party Caucus, is considering a run for the White House. Yep. We've yet to have a woman president — or even a woman make it past the primaries — and this is what we get? Another name to add to the list of women who call themselves women, politicians who, like Boehner, like everything about family values — unless of course you define those values in terms of the support, like the new health care plan, that enables them to survive. As we wrote back in November, when California distinguished itself by having two such women on the ballot, a skirt does not a woman make, nor does a skirt make a woman a friend of families:
Because who suffered most under our our health care system of old? Women. And when women suffer, it's often the kids who pay the price. So much for those family values. But let's recall a few things we may have forgotten about the old way of health care. Pregnancy: pre-existing condition. Women: statistically more likely to work part-time jobs (so they can care for their kids) that do not provide benefits. Sure, all is well and good for ladies who can depend on well-employed husbands for heath care benefits. But what if he loses his job? Hard to afford COBRA on a part time salary. Or no salary. Or even one salary, for that matter.
And what if she's a single mother? Sorry, kids. No doc for you…
And finally, there's that scandal over the raunchy navy videos. You know the ones: mocking women and gays as a boys-will-be-boys bonding exercise. Let's go over to salon, where Tracy Clark-Flory (hey, where did Broadsheet go?) reports on her interview with anthropologist Lionel Tiger, author of "Men in Groups," who says that this all this stuff is a way to build, you know, brotherhood. Especially when you're stuck at sea:
There is an "intrinsic tension from living together in a relatively crowded environment for long periods of time," and on a warship at sea, no less. That tension demands a release, and humor is a necessary outlet — but laughs aren't the only motivator. Sexual stereotypes "reinforce the in-group feeling," he says. Women, who were banned from serving on submarines until just last year, are "an easy out-group to pick on," he says, and so are gays, who may soon be allowed to serve openly in the military. In both cases, it serves to prop up the heterosexual male norm, allowing for a touchy-feely-but-totally-not-gay "brotherhood."
This Tiger person says that it's important to know why this kind of stuff happens. Clark-Flory takes it a step further, pointing out that the real issue is why this kind of stuff is allowed to happen.
Oh wait, there's one more thing more that kind of takes us back to Shannon's last two posts, on likability and ambition. Ms Magazine's January cover will feature Nancy Pelosi, who the magazine calls the "Most Effective Speaker Ever", who passed more significant new public policy — from health care reform to the stimulus bill to the repeal of DADT — than any Speaker in the last 50 years. The magazine notes that even Norman Ornstein, resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, says that Pelosi "ranks with the most consequential speakers, certainly in the last 75 years." But Ms. also notes this:
If Pelosi's efficacy is news to some, it's because the media has often snubbed her. Neither Time nor Newsweek featured Pelosi on their covers in all the time she was Speaker (in contrast, Ms. put her on the cover immediately upon her inauguration). Both Time and Newsweek, however, have run covers featuring John Boehner—before he became Speaker.
That sound you hear is steam hissing from my ears. Back to the future? You be the judge.


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Hey Guys
I know I've said this before, but you gotta do something with
that Devx search engine, it is nearly useless (it seems).
I log all the message I send, so I know I have several messages
on your servers. But when I wanted to supply a link to one of
my earlier messages, I could not get to it.
If you log your messages, try this experiment a few times,
Pick a message from a while back, that you know you posted to
one of these 'editor' groups. Select a few (4-5) specific words from that
message to narrow your search, and then try to find it using your
devx search engine.
Not only did I not find what I was looking for, but when I used less
words to widen the search, I got about 40-50 responses, that took
several pages of calling back to the server for more results. No clue
as to how large the list was....
This is the second time I have tried to use that search page in about
as many months, and both times I have been dissapointed. If I remember
correctly, the reason I don't use it more often is because of the bad
experience I have had with it, over the past few years....
Maybe you get better results, so I am going to give you the specifics
of what I did, and perhaps you can tell me what I am doing wrong, if
I was looking for my message posted to talk.editors.vbpj, posted on
4/20/2001 - Subject: Has the May issue been published.
I went to http://www.devx.com/free/search/search.asp and typed in
"may issue published" I got 37 results, none of them the one I wanted.
(Also I have no idea how many are returned until I view the entire list!
How about adding that figure to the the first page so I can tell if I need to
refine my search or not?)
So then I thought I would try a few words from the body of the message,
I have the message in front of me, so I know exactly which words to use.
I tried "mailbox AND wondering AND missed AND issue" all subject
and libraries boxes are checked. 2 results showed up both from the same
group that I wanted (editors.vbpj, so it is archived), neither of them what I
wanted. I tried other combinations, some with my own last name, and was
not able to locate the message I wanted.
I know it was posted, there were even replies to it, as I recall, but it was nowhere
to be found from your search engine. I really think you should have the number
of results returned available, so that I know if the search was too broad where
I might have 100+ messages to look through @ 10 per page (no thanks!).
What do you think caused me to miss finding a message I know was posted?